Solaris on Al's Ramblings

Solaris Vagrant Packer and the base box

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t used Vagrant then go check it out. It’s certainly come a long way since the early days and expanded beyond just VirtualBox. Targeted early at developers its certainly a tool that has different uses to different folk, as a system admin I find it handy to test and build SOE’s, deployment scripts and an assortment of sandbox stuff.

There are countless base box’s available on line if your are not inclined/interested in building your own. There is however not a lot of Solaris base boxes about , mostly I’d guess due to distribution restrictions, or lack of demand. I’ve experimented with veewee and bento but packer the new kid on the block seems to fit the bill. Since there is no shortage of info on building Linux base boxes I decided if I was going to kick the tires on packer then I’d make it useful and build a Solaris 11 base box.

Puppet 3 and Solaris 11 IPS

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A recent post Solaris Packages for Puppet 3.0.0-rc7, Facter 1.6.0 and Hiera 1.0.0 on a puppet mailing list caught my eye.

While gems has a nifty little package management system of it’s own, it is possible be that your machines do not have direct access to the interent so having a local IPS repo is handy. I’ll demonstrate how to add these packages to you own repository. This assumes you have already setup your own local repo.

How to create Mulitple Solaris Repositories

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 11 repo setup but you want to have your own repo serving up own home grown packages, separate from your main Solaris 11 image repository. Actually I’d like an extra two repo’s I want a dev repo that to test my packaging abilities and a “release” one when I’m ready to publish. Mostly becuase there doesn’t seem to be a straight forward way to remove packages from a repo and my packaging skills are work in progress.

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin's

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin’sSo sometimes Solaris Admins need to turn their hand at another OS for various reasons, especial in this day and age of mass production of virtual environments. Solaris Admins will be well versed with jumpstart a tried and truly tested system of automated builds for over a decade now. While recently this system has been thrown out with the bath water for AI in Solaris 11 and while the jury is still out on that one that’s a conversation for another time.

Solaris 10 Container in Solaris 11

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Second Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 10 branded container in Solaris 11

Solaris 11 Express VNC

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Okay , not entirely sure why yet but I though I’d like to get VNC server configured on my Solaris machines, perhaps it’s with the arrival of the AppleTV 2 in the house freeing up the trusty mac mini workhorse to go back to desktop duties after the last 3+ year as a Plex app media player, anyway on to the task at hand.

Upgrade OpenSolaris to Solaris 11 Express

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

How to upgrade your Opensolaris dev build 134 to Solaris 11 Express build 151a

DAY 6 Lisa 2010 Dtrace tut

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Jim Mauro’s Dtrace tut

DAY 2 LISA 2010 ZFS tut

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Day two the rain has stopped a little bit of Californian sunshine.

How to configure iLOM ssh key for SUN T-series

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Note if you do not have at least Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743 firmware then you will run into this bug
6823488 Cannot add an SSH key for automatic password authentication.

> ssh root@ilom
Password:
Waiting for daemons to initialize...

Daemons ready

Sun(TM) Integrated Lights Out Manager

Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743

Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

-> cd /SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1
/SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1

-> set load_uri=http://192.168.0.1/sshkey.pub
Load successful.

How to configure ssh public key for XSCF

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

XSCF> showssh -c pubkey -u admin XSCF> setssh -c addpubkey -u admin Please input a public key: ssh-rsaAAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn5DZLAtDtan37waaAPkhU9b40q0CP5HCtqULaI+V0YU/iDpxeu0/RmFRgYSXdbniAr9wBAWn+vOUmwmyZJoIwgqCN88VJoa+U9g34B2WSMsBqIYleMsvQiBStnnkZgNY/OmDrmq1VU10H8QMw0kCmIQ3Nss7CmR0/E/9tJ6+b6E=

looks like you need a Control D here

XSCF> showssh -c pubkey -u unixadmin Public key: 1 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn5DZLAtDtan37waaAPkhU9b40q0CP5HCtqULaI+V0YU/iDpxeu0/RmFRgYSXdbniAr9wBAWn+vOUmwmyZJoIwgqCN88VJoa+U9g34B2WSMsBqIYleMsvQiBStnnkZgNY/OmDrmq1VU10H8QMw0kCmIQ3Nss7CmR0/E/9tJ6+b6E=

Tick with no Toc

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve had an ongoing long running battle at a place of employment trying to get the folks that look after the user accounts to understand the difference between non login accounts, lock accounts, and accounts with expired passwords specifically the impact that has on Solaris Cron. Well notch one up to the good guys I think I had a win today, and it reminded me of this post from Glenn Brunette

Oracle Solaris download from OTN with wget

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 10 Update 9 recently announced and I believe this is the first release under the new stewardship. For the first time last month I received an email from my ISP saying I was getting close to my peak download limit, so I am making concerted effort to download in my off-peak time.